BS: Puke Wines

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 09:04 AM

Wild Irish Rose, any flavor of Ripple, Boone's Farm, Black Bear (a mix of beer and sweet wine)...and because of one particular incident, Chateauneuf Du Pape in the twisted bottle. Mad Dog 20/20. Molly Pitcher Cannon Number 12 (I believe that was the number).

And I still have a bottle of La Bonne Merde, the last bottle my brother ever made. I've been afraid to open it; I understand that it's so dry that if you open in it creates a black hole and sucks you into some other time-space place.

Barenheier's Port, the bane of my childhood.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: kendall
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:48 AM

Wild Irish Rose has to be the bottom of the pit.
I used to drink Lambrusco but red wine gives me migraines.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: bobad
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:01 AM

Like you Beer, I started out on those cheap Portuguese rosés, Mateus and Faisca - I can remember passing a bottle over a bathroom stall to a buddy as we were getting primed for a school dance.

On trips to my buddy's in Vermont we had a chance to sample America's finest rot gut - our brands of choice were Thunderbird, Old Duke, Ripple, Wild Irish Rose and others which names I have thankfully forgotten.

Fortunately I was blessed with a cast iron stomach in those days and don't remember having ever puked from imbibing.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: TheSnail
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 07:55 AM

Back in my student days, the usual party wine was called Carafino. It came in a carafe shaped bottle to make it look interesting and was CHEAP. It came to be known as Parafino.

(UK parafin = USA kerosene)

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Beer
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 07:30 AM

Forgot about Morgen David, Ebbie, terrible stuff. Remember buying a bottle of it from a bootlegger. Buddy and I were about 14/15. To make it last we would mix it with a bottle of coke. Oh my God!
Never tried those Bob the Postman. They do sound horrific.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Silas
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 06:16 AM

If you like reisling then Blue Nun and Black Tower are OK, more a victim of their sucess than crap product. In fact, most german wines are pretty good even supermarket own brand stuffis reasonably OK, its just not everyones taste these days. Don't compare with 'proper' quality stuff like a trockenbeerenauslese, but you pays your money and you takes your choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: gnomad
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:49 AM

Blue Nun, Black Tower, generic 'Liebfraumilch', V.P., 'British Wine', there were some truly awful things about, probably still are if you go looking.

The nastiest I ever tasted was the Bulgarian white wine I got in a hotel duty free shop back in '79. I was hotel-bound due to an injury and went to get a pack of cards to play patience, and a half-bottle of brandy. As the shop only took hard currency I offered my smallest note, a £5. My change was a tube of Primula cheese, some Dutch Guilders, and three bottles of supposed wine which I reckon started life in the battery of a malfunctioning tractor. It was dirt cheap, but still a bad bargain.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:18 AM

I was ill with a severe cold the night before I got married in 1976. I got ratted on (among other beverages) a litre bottle of sweet white Hirondelle. Somewhere there's a photo of me brandishing the bottle wearing little except my wedding tie.

The first bottle of wine I ever bought was in Italy in 1968 when I was 17, on a school trip. It cost the English equivalent of 1s 9d and was called Ocone. I don't think my stomach's recovered yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Silas
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:11 AM

Hirondelle?

Jeeze - did we actually drink that stuff?

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: saulgoldie
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:01 AM

Probly Boone's Farm. I heard (but never confirmed) that they put formaldehyde in it. Yeesh! But good for "quantity drinking." And, of course, puking.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:10 AM

Vancouver, 1972. Me and Lee used to jam with some help from a 26er of Four Aces sherry—the only 26er in the LCB store on Main that cost less than a dollar—99 cents, to be precise. After a while they replaced Four Aces with Old Niagara. Same "sherry", same price, but with a label aimed at the little old lady demographic instead of the skid row crowd.

And I recall a bargain Hungarian claret that tasted like they crushed the grapes by putting them in a trough and driving a surplus Red Army jeep back and forth through them.

B. C.'s Calona Wines had the jack series—Double Jack, which was 80% apple juice and 20% ethanol. If you got so sick on Double Jack that you couldn't touch it anymore you could always try Berry Jack or Cherry Jack. They all came in a 40 ounce jug so you could swig the poison hillbilly style.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 01:52 AM

When I was 19, a 'friend' brought me some Mogen David. Ugh. It was years before I ever touched wine again.

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:31 PM

I should also add .... Szekszárd was a great accompaniment with some Acapulco Gold ... ;-)

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:27 PM

Yeah it is beer .... it appeared on the shelves her in the NBLiquor stores about 2 years ago ... now that Hungary isn't a communist country the price has shot up to around $14 ... outrageous ... what are poor students supposed to drink these days .... geeeesh.

Thanks Beer .... This thread has drifted my mind back through to so many years ago and somehow this bit from Bob Dylan's song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is going through my head ....

"I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff.
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough;
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to call my bluff.
I'm going back to New York City;
I do believe I've had enough."

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: Beer
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:21 PM

Is it still available?

Subject: RE: BS: Puke Wines
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:09 PM

Szekszárd ... a dry red Hungarian wine .... the cheapest outside of the cheap sherries and ports and the crap domestic wines available at the time .... wan't a puke charger at all, actually was quite good.

biLL

Subject: BS: Puke Wines
From: Beer
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 11:01 PM

There is a thread that is started about Scotch and it is very interesting.
What I would like to hear is stories about when you first started out drinking wine. Was it Dry? Was it bubbly? or was it sweet?
A few of the shit brands that I went through were Matuse(sp.), 999, Loganberry. They were all great back in the 60ties but there must be more out there.
Adrien